disable ABS?

TireIron · Post by **TireIron** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:30 am

ok so when somone replaced a stud on one of my hubs they totally messed the tone ring, right now i dont have the time or money to replace it and i was wondering how to fully disable the abs so i have normal brakes (and actually after driving cars without abs for years i like it better not having it...).

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:41 am

Pull the ABS fuse out from the underdash fuse box.

TireIron · Post by **TireIron** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:45 am

glad to hear its that simple, thanx

MY92 · Post by **MY92** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:01 am

Does anyone know which fuse it acutally is?

My fuse box is all in japanese

TireIron · Post by **TireIron** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:06 am

i can take a pic tomorrow of my cover if you want

ej22t · Post by **ej22t** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:16 am

The ABS fuse should be at the fuse box inside the engine bay, when you open the box and you will see ABS on the sticker underside on the cover, it should be a big red with 40A on it, take it out and your dash will turn on the ABS light but it will be fine. When you put the fuse back then the light will go off.!

Ben

TireIron · Post by **TireIron** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:22 am

weee i guess i get to live with the ABS light from now on unless i do some serious reading of wireing diagrams and figure out how to fool the system into thinking everyhtings fine... ha like im that enthusiastic to get rid of a light.

scottzg · Post by **scottzg** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:53 am

a little piece of electrical tape in the right spot will take care of it.

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:35 am

From a look at the diagrams, I'd say disconnecting the 12-pin round connector from the hydraulic unit underhood should make the light go away. You might want to cover the exposed connectors up with tape or something just to keep the terminals from corroding just in case.

rallysam · Post by **rallysam** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:50 pm

If I drive around with the ABS fuse pulled, does that cause any problems? Are there any safety issues? Does it do anything funky? Or does it really behave just like a normal car without ABS?

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:14 am

It will behave like a conventional car without ABS. That was a huge engineering problem when ABS was first designed: how to make sure you wouldn't lose braking functionality when the ABS system failed. If you disable the ABS computer the hydraulic unit is completely inert in the braking circuits.

georryan · Post by **georryan** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:16 am

That's good to know. It might be benefitial to turn off the abs if I ever autox the car. Has anyone found that they like ABS during auto-xing?

rallysam · Post by **rallysam** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:29 am

In RallyX, I find the ABS maddening. I haven't autoX'd enough to make an informed opinion.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:18 am

Why not run what the STi guys do?

An ABS By-pass switch. Flip a switch, ABS = off, ABS light = off.

Flip ABS switch back on and everything is normal. This is what I plan on doing.

I used to have the diagram on my computer, but I think I deleted it (never thinking I'd use it, lol).

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:29 pm

Yeah, several of us do that. Morgie had a picture of his up in another thread.

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disable ABS?

disable ABS?